BizEx Consulting to conduct seminars
BizEx Consulting a newly formed consultancy company, promoting
business excellence, is to conduct several seminars on productivity
techniques and Japanese management techniques. The first two seminars
will be on June 20 and 21, 2013 at the Postgraduate Institute of
Management. The seminar presenter will be Sunil G Wijesinha.
Sri Lanka is fast losing its competitiveness of its traditional
industries and services.Two basic approaches are being implemented by
companies; one is the upgrading of the product or service to a higher
quality level and with more advanced technology, while the other is to
improve labour, material and energy productivity. While the US and
Europe has had a productivity focus for more than a century, Asian
countries lagged behind in productivity. It was for this reason that
Japan, in 1960, proposed the formation of the inter-governmental Asian
Productivity Organisation (APO) to help member countries improve
productivity and thereby the standard of living. Japan had a
productivity and quality improvement drive from the 1950s while
Singapore and Malaysia launched special productivity initiatives in the
early 1980s. However Sri Lanka's productivity promotion was lukewarm at
most, firstly because of the closed economy then followed by the success
of the opening of the economy even without high efficiency and
productivity.
With Sri Lanka reaching middle income status, subsidies being
gradually dismantled and a shortage of labour, the necessity for
productivity improvement is being felt as never before. The approach in
many countries is to train everyone in an organisation in basic
productivity and quality techniques because a few experts cannot make
the same impact as hundreds of trained productivity and quality
enthusiasts in the organisation. The modern approach, as a result of
higher education of the workforce, is to use every employee as a
productivity and quality specialist.
BizEx seminars will impart some useful and practical techniques that
can be easily implemented in the workplace. The seminar presenter Sunil
G Wijesinha is qualified in productivity and has been a long time
practitioner. Having implemented many productivity techniques at his own
workplaces he is regarded as a consultant with practical experience as
well. His seminars are always punctuated with many practical anecdotes,
and obstacles he has faced, and will provide solutions to implementation
issues.
He has been recognised by the Asian Productivity Organisation for his
pioneering efforts in promoting productivity in Sri Lanka and was
awarded the "National Award 2000," and subsequently the "Regional Award
2005" for his productivity promotion efforts in the Asia Pacific region.
The original "National Productivity Award" models and evaluation
schemes for the private sector, Government sector and schools were
prepared by him. He was also the initiator of JASTECA's Taiki Akimoto 5S
Award and the original evaluation criteria was prepared by him. He is
also considered the father of the Japanese style Quality Circles in Sri
Lanka.
The first BizEx seminar will be on "Measuring and Improving
Productivity" and is aimed at providing skills to measure and improve
productivity in any organisation. The second seminar on "Super 5S for a
Super Efficient Workplace" will be aimed at those who wish to implement
the advanced version of the Japanese 5S method of improving the
organisation and efficiency of the workplace, be it a factory or an
office.
Subsequent seminars will be on "Quality Circles", "Kaizen Suggestion
Schemes", "Formulating and Implementing Financial Incentive Schemes",
"Time Management", "Problem Solving Techniques", and "Quality
Management"
BizEx Consulting is committed to disseminating many productivity and
quality techniques to enhance the business excellence of Sri Lankan
organisations. |